Can't sack everyone: Mamata tells protesting doctors

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday urged the junior doctors protesting the rape and murder of their colleague at R G Kar Hospital to end their fast-unto-death stir, stating that......

5 accused sought Rs 50 lakh to kill Baba Siddique, but...

The Mumbai police probing the Baba Siddique murder case have found that the five newly-arrested accused had demanded Rs 50 lakh for the killing, but backed out later due to disagreement over......

3rd accused in Baba Siddique murder case sent to police custody

A Mumbai court on Monday remanded the third person arrested for the killing of Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique to police custody till October 21.......

Is Baba Siddique's shooter minor? Bone test reveals...

Mumbai Police investigating the murder case of Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddiqui conducted an ossification test of accused Dharmaraj Kashyap in which......

As EVs rise in India, a requiem for Kolkata's electric trams

Kolkata trams -- now in their 150th year -- are the last to survive modernity in Indian cities, writes Ishita Ayan Dutt. IMAGE: Tram at Esplanade depot in Kolkata. All photographs: Hitesh......

SC rejects plea by PMC Bank customers for lifting restrictions

The Supreme court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed on behalf of scam-hit PMC Bank account holders seeking lifting of restrictions imposed by the Reserve Bank of India on cash......

SC to hear plea for full insurance of all bank deposits

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to an urgent hearing on a plea seeking directions for interim protective measures to insure around 15 lakh people whose money is blocked in the scam-hit PMC......

How Kolkata trams are getting a new lease of life

Reopening of closed tram routes is on top of the mind of the authorities Colonial-era charm of trams is being revisited in the city with air-conditioned tram cars being lined up and closed routes......

Shilpa Shetty: We don't deserve a media trial

IMAGE: Raj Kundra, right, brought to the Esplanade court in Mumbai. Photograph: ANI Photo   Shilpa Shetty has issued a statement in the ongoing case involving husband Raj Kundra's arrest and......

Movie halls prepare for a post lockdown world

''We have to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats.''We have to stop screening back-to-back shows to ensure that people do not bump into one another.'......

South Korea wins gold in Archery Mixed Team event

IMAGE: Sihyeon Lim of South Korea and Woojin Kim of South Korea in action during the final. Photograph: Tingshu Wang / Reuters. South Korea's mixed archery pair of Lim Si-hyeon and......

21-year-old Lim Si-hyeon sets World, Olympic archery mark

IMAGE: South Korea's Lim Si-hyeon set a World and Olympic record 694 in the Olympics women's individual ranking round at the stunning Esplanade des Invalides in Paris on Thursday. Photograph:......

India's archers aiming to break medal drought in Paris

IMAGE: India’s Deepika Kumari and Pravin Ramesh Jadhav during competition. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters South Korea have topped the archery medals table at every Games since......

ICC to announce 2015 World Cup fixtures

The International Cricket Council will announce the fixtures of the 2015 World Cup, to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand simultaneously in Melbourne and Wellington, on Tuesday. "The......

Bookie Shobhan Mehta sent to six-day police custody

A big-time bookie Shobhan Mehta, arrested in connection with the Indian Premier League betting scandal, was on Saturday remanded to Mumbai Police custody as investigators said they want to probe......